Questions for Roland Perry

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

Please add your questions for the Amstrad guru below

[Britnostalgic]

Roland. What on earth did you mean when you mentioned that the GX4000 was almost as powerful as the SNES?

[ipmarks]

Did you ever get out of those caves?

[markopoloman]

c64 OR Speccy?

[The Master]

Who is your favourite Doctor Who?

[RMLF]

Are you a Ro- Ro Ferry? or the mysterious 3rd wave. the Ro-Ro Perry?

[Timothy Lumsden]

If you're being honest, what percentage of Amsoft games were put out to make up the numbers and were substandard?

[merman]

During the development of the machine, the processor was changed from a 6502 to a Z80. Did you think this was a good thing?

Were there any games Amsoft turned down for any reason and refused to publish?

[SirClive]

Were you disappointed that so many developers chose to do lazy ports of Spectrum games instead of using the machines stregnths?

[Seadog74]

Could the GX4000 have been released sooner as it was all a bit late?
Was the designer of the GX4000 a Star Wars fan as it looks a bit like a Snowspeeder?
To have a chance against the Amiga and Atari St, could the plus systems come with more memory/power?

[paranoid marvin]

Do you think that forcing gamers to have to pay the extra cost for a monitor , when your main rivals didn't was a mistake?

Also were you involved in the takeover of Sinclair and what were your feelings on this?

[Dizrythmia]

What was your favourite "Roland" game on the Amstrad?

[Doddsy]

Why wasn't the image of the Roland character consistent? Do you think Amsoft & Amstrad could have sold more units if Roland had been an identifiable mascot like Miner Willy, Sonic or Mario?

[Britnostalgic]

Why didn't Amstrad release the super powerful ANT CPC? It existed, so why wasn't it released... the specs look awesome??